Lamb meatballs, Gruyere crisps for your New Year’s Eve party

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   >>> welcome back to "today" on this booze-day. many of you will be boozing it up in a few days to ring in the new year. be careful.

   >> if you don't have to leave the kids at grandma's house for having a good time, here are ways to throw a kid-friendly party. carla hall and elizabeth mayhew, editor in chief of "woman's day" magazine.

   >> what a team!

   >> carla , your balls are quite the hit!

   >> i am so excited. i love it when you like my balls.

   >> what do we have on table one?

   >> on table one we have gruyere crisps.

   >> i don't even eat them anymore because it is cheese but i'm going to do it because of you.

   >> elizabeth is doing this great theme on thyme.

   >> the whole point is that to decorate your table, get black-eyed peas. you know they're good for the new year. you fill those up. you can use fresh flowers or -- we use fake flowers, super easy. we then got inspiration from plates from pottery barn and used adhesive numbers. i know you guys like to drink. carla made a drink and also you can fashion -- just take numbers, 2011 .

   >> that's adorable!

   >> we've got rum, a pomegranate liqueur, orange juice , a little bit of lemon and cranberry juice .

   >> oh my god.

   >> smack your mama good.

   >> she said smack your mama good.

   >> leave it.

   >> drop the drink. right there.

   >> here you have lamb balls.

   >> of course you do.

   >> instead of having all of those sauces -- they're really small. you just pop them in your mouth.

   >> these are bigger though than real lamb balls. i've been told by the crew. our crew would know.

   >> doing with a fennel and cucumber sauce , still keeping the feel of the mediterranean. for our drink we have champagne and we have a little bit of orange juice .

   >> i just put a little just some glue on it, some glitter. add bling to your plastic to go with your balls.

   >> blood orange juice for the color.

   >> this table, literally use your christmas decorations to not have to go out and buy tons of stuff. we just stripped it down, used tinsel around the chairs, we went with the silver theme. take branches off your tree, paint them silver.

   >> that's a good idea.

   >> this is now your new year's -- so elegant.

   >> little bells for your balls. that's to ring in the new year.

   >> all right. okay. drop the drink.

   >> we have to go with the washington theme over here.

   >> our final table describe --

   >> this is a kid's table. what we wanted to do is we really wanted kids to celebrate new year's around the globe. so as each time zone change, they would blow out the candle to celebrate that.

   >> that's so smart!

   >> we grabbed toys and things from around the house and put mats down.

   >> all the kids know pizza. we did a focaccia. you can use your world theme to put whatever you want on that pizza and the kids can help. you all know i don't drink but i eat my alcohol. we have chocolate milk with whipped cream.

   >> i love this whole theme. this is such a great and easy way to ring in the new year.

   >> and really inspirational and educational too, hoda.

   >> isn't she on your nerves? er everyone agree right now,

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